ianzhang366/acme-wsl

Install acme / plan9port on Windows Subsystem for Linux

acme-wsl

Install acme / plan9port on Debian/Ubuntu-based distros on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Instructions

1. Download and run the script:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elrzn/acme-wsl/master/install.sh | sh -s

2. Install VcXsrv X server for Windows.
3. To run:

export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
export DISPLAY=:0
acme -af /mnt/font/DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono/12a/font

4. Consider adding the above environmental variables to ~/.bashrc (optional):

echo "export DISPLAY=:0" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1" >> ~/.bashrc

5. Consider creating a script to launch acme with the above (optional):

echo "#!/bin/sh" >> ~/runacme.sh
echo "acme -af /mnt/font/DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono/12a/font1" >> ~/runacme.sh
sudo chmod u+x ~/runacme.sh